, 1887-07-12
RESCUED FROM SHAME.
Career Of a Runaway Grand Island,
Neb., Girl.
Married to a Brute who Beats and
FOrsakes Her.
Meeting of a Father and Daughter
in a Cheyenne Bagnio.

About lI:3O last night a gray-haired
old man allghted from a hack which had
been rapidly driven to the gate of a
west end bagnio, rushed hurriedly up to
the door, and rang the bell several times.
He was finally admitted and asked to see
the proprietress at once, and when that
individual advanced at Immediately
began to rapidly converse with her in
low tones. The visitor was evidently
laboring under great excitement, and
caused considerable speculation among
the inmates by his abrupt appearance
and general behavior. What converse
ton passed between the gentleman and
the presiding spirit of the place was not
learned, but at the expiration of a few
minutes she sent for an inmate of the
house named Rachael Mason, who had
arrived at the establishment the previous
evening.
The girl entered the room in a lively
manner, humming a popular air, but no
sooner beheld the intruder than she
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father and tainted in the arms of him
whose protection she had spurned and
whose name she had disgraced, while the
father wept like a child.
When the girl revived the pair de-
parted for a hotel, where a LEADER rep
resentative met the father and learned
from his lips the full particulars of the
deplorable affair.
Mr.. +. j. Latham, for hat is the gen.
tleman's name, is a wealthy business man
of Grand Island, Neb. and has a wife and
two children besides the hayward girl,
whose real name Is Marie Latham. He
said sometime last winter she had become
acquainted with a barkeeper named Lynch
and had become so infatuated with the
man that she had consented to elope with
him. This was accordingly done, and the
pair were married in Omaha, but soon
after left for Denver, where Lynch OBJ
tanned employment at good wages. All
ven well for a time, and the father had
begun to think that perhaps the union
was not SO bad for all concerned as he had
at first supposed.
In due time the Lynch family was aug
mented by the arrival of a bouncing baby
girl. Actuated by the impulses that have
ruined many a better man, Lynch cele-
brated the occasion by getting gloriously
drunk. He did not stop at that, how.
ever, but continued his spree for several
weeks and wound up by robbing his en-
ployer, beating his wife and leaving the
county.
Thrown upon her own resources, the
woman gained a livelihood for a time by
giving music lessons, but upon the death
Of her child departed from the path of
ractitude and Joined the host of fallen
ones.
The father had an inkling of the doings
of his children in Denver and started out in
search of his daughter and after spending
several days in a f%ruitless hunt in Denver
proceeded to this city with the result
noted above. Both were overjoyed at the
meeting and will leave for home this
morning, where the girl, who is a beauti-
full blond of % has promised to reform
and begin a new life.
Several warrants are out for Lynch,
and if captured he will probably serve a
term in the penitentlary for grand larceny.
He is described as tall, fine looking and
well dressed man about 80 years of age
who uses good language and frequents
gambling houses. He is OF southern
birth, and very frequently uses the ex-
preston by CAD" Lynch is said to be
a dangerous man when excited and is
liable to resist and attempt an escape if
arrested.